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Well, in a world where people are driven crazy by all kinds of internal
and external work items, it would be definitely difficult to find a time
slot that suits everyone.

In a MNE like IBM, we always have this problem. We do a lot of meetings
in evenings (before 11:30pm most of the time), and some early morning
conference calls.  

At least, losing all US-based folks is not a good option. Having PTL in
the discussion is desirable, certainly.

Just two cents from me.

Regards,
  - Qiming

On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 03:12:40PM -0400, Zane Bitter wrote:
> At the beginning of this year we introduced alternating times for
> the Heat weekly IRC meeting, in the hope that our contributors in
> Asia would be able to join us. The consensus is that this hasn't
> worked out as well as we had hoped - even the new time falls at 8am
> in Beijing, so folks are regularly unable to make the meeting. It
> also falls at 5pm on the west coast of the US, so folks from there
> are also regularly unable to make the meeting too. And of course it
> is in the middle of the night for Europe, so the meeting room looks
> like a ghost town.
> 
> Since we are in a new development cycle (with the PTL in a different
> location) and daylight savings has kicked in/out in many places,
> let's review our options. Here are our choices as I see it:
> 
> * Keep going with the current system or some minor tweak to it.
> 
> * Flip the alternate meeting by 12 hours to 1200 UTC. (8pm in China,
> late night in Oceania, early-morning on the east coast of the US and
> we lose the rest of the US.)
> 
> * Lose all US-based folks and have a meeting for the rest of the
> world at around 0700 UTC. (US-based folks include me, so I would
> have to ask someone else to take care of passing on
> messages-from-the-PTL.)
> 
> * Abandon the alternating meetings altogether.
> 
> What would people prefer? I'd particularly like to hear from folks
> based in Asia what times would enable them to regularly attend,
> while still ensuring there are other people there to talk to ;)
> 
> thanks,
> Zane.
> 
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